Ex-Guantanamo inmate stopped from flying to Montreal

A French former Guantanamo detainee was barred from flying to Montreal, where he was to address a conference on Western youth radicalization, he said Friday. Mourad Benchellali told public broadcaster Radio-Canada that he was stopped in Lyon, France from boarding an Air Transat flight because of US concerns the aircraft would fly through US airspace. “I was coming to Canada to talk about prevention, to talk about my story.